Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Fresno State officials have scheduled a news conference for 7:30 tonight to announce the school's expected move to the Mountain West Conference.

The Reno Gazette-Journal is reporting that Nevada also will accept the offer to join the MWC and that the university did not sign a reported $5 million buyout clause to get out of the Western Athletic Conference. The Reno newspaper also said that Nevada would hold its news conference at 7:30 p.m.

This move comes as BYU is reportedly set to leave the MWC to become a football independent but WAC-affiliated in all other sports. With Fresno State and Nevada now leaving to the MWC, it's all still up in the air.

8 Comments:

Man this stinks...I think if Fresno and Reno leave then BYU won't want to come over for the other sports. The WAC will be down to six schools and no one to logically replace them. I hope this is not the end of the WAC.

Thanks for the blog! I'm in Seattle, but I still watch the games and listen to Bobby Curran and Robert Kekaula on the radio.

That said:Holy crap, this sucks! Back when Boise was leaving it was said that the worst case scenario was if Fresno and Nevada opted to leave as well. I guess we're in that worst case scenario right now...